a few of the things we were blessed with...

My parents bought us this sweet knife set and block!! They are so generous to us.

Ok, these are awesome. Rebekah and Brian MADE these for us!! It's wall art to hang in our bedroom. That is really the only room I haven't decorated much, and I haven't been able to find anything I really love to hang on the walls. So Rebekah saw something similar to these online and decided to make them herself. How Cool are they?!

My Parents gave Steve this book. It just so happens to be one of my favorites! yeah! He's looking forward to reading it as well :)


The SGC cookbook from my mom. Steve was excited about this one.

Rachael gave us two of these sweet frames - also for our bedroom! We'll be set!



Steve's clothes from me - except the sweater...that's from my parents.

My clothes from Steve and from my mom. Yay! Been needing some new clothes.

An 'our first christmas together 2007' ornament from my parents! Adorable!

Needless to say, we were extremely blessed this Christmas!! I am so thankful for all of the gifts we received, but much more so for my amazingly wonderful husband and my sweet, loving family. I am so glad we were able to spend Christmas together! Family is a beautiful thing. I thank God for placing me in a loving Christian home and for blessing me with a man who loves his Savior more than anything and loves me so much better than I deserve. I am so excited to build a family together that will, Lord willing, love and serve their Savior and each other for generations to come.

catching up...

Sorry the posts have been few and far between. I know our blog has been a bit boring lately. But now that the craziness of finals and Christmas are over, things should be slowing down a bit and getting back to normal...hopefully I'll be better about posting.

December has been a great month. School wrapped up for me around the 14th with my last final. It was a good semester all in all. I enjoyed all of my classes and got decent grades :) But I'm definately glad it's over with only one more to go. WOOHOO!

Steve's parents, Bob and Deb, flew down from NH on Wednesday the 13th. They came to celebrate an early Christmas with me, Steve and Brian. We had a very enjoyable five days with them. Their visit included a Thanksgiving meal, Steve taking his Dad to work to show him the ropes, Brian taking them around town to show them the sites, hanging out and playing games at the apartment, a traditional Crabb Christmas Eve dinner: Lasagna, and a Christmas celebration which concluded with "ear candling". You know where you stick a long, funneled candle thing in your ear and let it burn down and then rip it open to see how much ear wax it collected. Yep. That's what we did. It was interesting to say the least. (the pic above is us with the ear candles)

They left on the 17th. We had a great time hanging out with Dad and "Beano" (a name that the Crabb kids gave their mom years ago and has stuck around - don't ask. So that's what we call her.) We love you guys!!

The week that followed was spent mainly doing all my Christmas shopping. I wasn't too stressed because I had a fairly good idea of what I wanted to get for all family members. Thank goodness, that all went smoothly. I had to battle the malls and Target a good many times, but got it all accomplished with time to spare. We had a WONDERFUL christmas with my family. Steve and I got up Christmas morning, showered, and then ate sweet rolls, coffee and OJ for breakfast (a Myhill tradition). We then opened up our gifts from each other. Steve went all out. He got me a couple sweaters, a sweat shirt, a hat, and a couple things I don't think I'm allowed to mention ;) He is SOO sweet and thoughtful. I got him several shirts, a pair of nice khaki pants (he's ruined all his other ones at work) boxers, candy, and I printed out one of his favorite pictures of me to keep in his truck - which I enclosed in a little love letter :) After our lovely morning we gathered all of our gifts for my family and headed over to their house for round two. We had a great time sharing gifts and then feasting over a table of delicious food. It was a great Christmas celebration!! My family was SO extremely generous to us. We got many great gifts. I'll probably do another post on those because there are some pretty cool ones that I want to show pictures of.

Today it poured rain all day long, so Steve didn't have to work! It was so nice to be able to spend the whole day with him. We ended up running errands together for most of the day - hitting up the malls for a couple returns/exchanges and then bringing coffee to a couple of the managers at his dealerships. We had so much fun hanging out. We're just chillin at home tonight. I have some poppyseed chicken in the oven and we're going to do some reading and cuddling :)

I am so thankful for this time to relax and relflect on the birth of my Savior Jesus Christ!! I hope you all are able to do the same!

tree time!

We got our Christmas tree last night! It was so fun to go and pick it out together, haul it back in our little Chevy Cavalier, and set it up in our crowded apartment :) Hehe. We got the perfect one. It makes our home SO cozy. I love it!

I was such a fun night. I, unfortunately, had been studying all day and most of the evening for finals, so we took a break and went searching for our tree. Then we brought it back and Steve set it up and strung the lights on it as I got out the ornaments and started deckin it out! And of course you can't decorate your Christmas tree without some good ole' hot cocoa.

One of the newest additions to our ornament collection :)

watch this video...

Here's the link to a youtube video of a drama that was done to the Lifehouse song "Everything." It is really powerful! I started watching it thinking it would be some cheesy interpretive thing...but I was wrong. It brought me to tears! It is about God creating man, the fall and redemption. Watch it - you won't be sorry. It's only 5 minutes or so. To me this proves that drama can be very effective.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEUVSbD9NF8